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The Finite Chimps
A secretive facility plays home to one hundred steel cages, one hundred chimpanzees, and, perhaps more intriguing still, one hundred Olivetti typewriters.
The Finite Chimps is both an amusing and chilling story about an altogether odd experiment gone awry. Moreover, it is an altogether dark and hairy tale about man’s often cruel indifference and belligerent abuse of his animal cousins, and a short sighted disregard for the beauty and magnificence of the natural world.
"What a piece of work is man! how noble in reason! how infinite in faculty! in form and moving how express and admirable! in action how like an angel! in apprehension how like a god! the beauty of the world, the paragon of animals! " Hamlet quote (Act II, Scene II)
Man, paragon of animals, rightful heir of Eden, master of this goodly frame the Earth? Such a premise was about to be severely tested!
The Finite Chimps is both an amusing and chilling story about an altogether odd experiment gone awry. Moreover, it is an altogether dark and hairy tale about man’s often cruel indifference and belligerent abuse of his animal cousins, and a short sighted disregard for the beauty and magnificence of the natural world.
"What a piece of work is man! how noble in reason! how infinite in faculty! in form and moving how express and admirable! in action how like an angel! in apprehension how like a god! the beauty of the world, the paragon of animals! " Hamlet quote (Act II, Scene II)
Man, paragon of animals, rightful heir of Eden, master of this goodly frame the Earth? Such a premise was about to be severely tested!
120 pages, Kindle Edition
First published December 15, 2012
9 people want to read
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Tom Conrad
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Tom Conrad is a very busy man. When not talking about himself in the third person, he likes to think of amusing bio descriptions:
"Born. Wrote many an ebook (continually delighted people actually read them)... Not dead yet!"
See, time well spent?!
ABOUT TOM CONRAD'S BOOKS:
Available on all Amazon platforms. I recommend Suicide is not a Plan B and That Semicolon Bitch Had to Die
ABOUT "ABOUT SECTIONS":
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Contact me direct: shutupanddeal@hotmail.com. My email address is actually the last line delivered in a favourite film of mine, and has nothing to do with my previous life as a world-class poker player.
Thank you for dropping by, I hope you enjoy one (or all) of my books x
Tom Conrad is a very busy man. When not talking about himself in the third person, he likes to think of amusing bio descriptions:
"Born. Wrote many an ebook (continually delighted people actually read them)... Not dead yet!"
See, time well spent?!
ABOUT TOM CONRAD'S BOOKS:
Available on all Amazon platforms. I recommend Suicide is not a Plan B and That Semicolon Bitch Had to Die
ABOUT "ABOUT SECTIONS":
They describe what things are about.
Contact me direct: shutupanddeal@hotmail.com. My email address is actually the last line delivered in a favourite film of mine, and has nothing to do with my previous life as a world-class poker player.
Thank you for dropping by, I hope you enjoy one (or all) of my books x
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January 5, 2013
In this novella we have Chimps being lab rats to Dr's for an absurd reason, to see if they are capable of typing sentences, either by being drugged, by brainwashing, or thru punishment/reward, in the hopes of reciting Shakespeare on none other than Olivetti typewriters. After decades of abuse and pawing at keys the Chimps revolt and a sort of Rise of the Planet of the Apes ensues, not only for Chimps but all animal kind.
I really liked the way the author gave emotion to the Chimps and a way to communicate, by way of shakespeare quotes, to the other characters in the book as well as the reader. And though I am not very familiar with Shakespeare I still could understand to some extent the quotes the author had used.
Again, this author astounds me by being able to pull me out of my genre and into his quirky world, this time with Chimps, Spiders, and Hummingbirds, to name a few, OH MY!
I really liked the way the author gave emotion to the Chimps and a way to communicate, by way of shakespeare quotes, to the other characters in the book as well as the reader. And though I am not very familiar with Shakespeare I still could understand to some extent the quotes the author had used.
Again, this author astounds me by being able to pull me out of my genre and into his quirky world, this time with Chimps, Spiders, and Hummingbirds, to name a few, OH MY!
January 5, 2013
In this novella we have Chimps being lab rats to Dr's for an absurd reason, to see if they are capable of typing sentences, either by being drugged, by brainwashing, or thru punishment/reward, in the hopes of reciting Shakespeare on none other than Olivetti typewriters. After decades of abuse and pawing at keys the Chimps revolt and a sort of Rise of the Planet of the Apes ensues, not only for Chimps but all animal kind.
I really liked the way the author gave emotion to the Chimps and a way to communicate, by way of shakespeare quotes, to the other characters in the book as well as the reader. And though I am not very familiar with Shakespeare I still could understand to some extent the quotes the author had used.
Again, this author astounds me by being able to pull me out of my genre and into his quirky world, this time with Chimps, Spiders, and Hummingbirds, to name a few, OH MY!(less)
I really liked the way the author gave emotion to the Chimps and a way to communicate, by way of shakespeare quotes, to the other characters in the book as well as the reader. And though I am not very familiar with Shakespeare I still could understand to some extent the quotes the author had used.
Again, this author astounds me by being able to pull me out of my genre and into his quirky world, this time with Chimps, Spiders, and Hummingbirds, to name a few, OH MY!(less)
December 24, 2012
Of my four titles available on Amazon, this is probably the work I'm least happy with, and yet I do think it's, hopefully, very entertaining throughout with plenty to offer the right audience.
If you like madcap, slightly zany stories with a lot of heart and wit, then you may enjoy this!
NB: Think, Brave New World meets Great Apes with a huge panthooning nod to Planet Of The Apes!
If you like madcap, slightly zany stories with a lot of heart and wit, then you may enjoy this!
NB: Think, Brave New World meets Great Apes with a huge panthooning nod to Planet Of The Apes!
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